Of Dragons and Magicians

Chapter 10

"Exposing Chaos"

Discord quickly teleported back to the shack at the edge of the Everfree Forest and returned to his disguise of being Big Bang's assistant. In his mind, Discord was probably wondering whether the ponies were already starting to become suspicious of him and his true motivations. Nevertheless, he returned to the shack where Black Magic and all the other ponies were waiting for him. It was at this point that Black Magic was starting to realize that there was much more to Big Bang's assistant and began to question his master bomb maker on the matter.

"I cannot help but wonder," said Black Magic, playing around with a piece of Trixie's torn cape. "Do you suppose that your assistant, Big Bang, has other goals in mind?"

The master bomb maker was surprised to hear this and wondered exactly what Black Magic was talking about.

"What are you saying, Black Magic?" she asked, trotting over to him. "Are you telling me that I hired the wrong pony?"

"I'm not saying that, my friend," he replied. "I'm only saying that maybe perhaps you can tell me where you met this pony or if she is even a pony to begin with."

After a brief silence, Big Bang stood before Black Magic and began to remark that she met her assistant at the meeting in Canterlot who claimed to be a part of the same group.

"Well, I think you made both a good and bad decision," remarked Black Magic as the disguised came back into the shack and attracted the terrorist leader's attention. "No pony joins our group unless if I say otherwise."

He then motioned for two other ponies to come forward and grab the disguised Discord roughly by the front legs. The disguised Discord struggled mightily as the ponies brought him before Black Magic.

"What are you doing?" demanded Big Bang. "Leave my assistant alone!"

"If she really is an assistant," sneered Black Magic, coming out from behind the desk and punched the disguised Discord in the stomach, causing him to scream in his normal voice. The sound of a male coming from a female pony caused some in the group to gasp loudly, even Big Bang. "Or a spy of Celestia's!"

The force of the punch to his stomach caused Discord at that moment to revert to his normal self, exposing him to the dangerous group. Black Magic chuckled as he watched Discord struggle to get to his feet.

"Ah, Discord," he laughed, as Discord got to his feet. "I should have known it was you, trying to redeem yourself for what you did with Tirek. Well, you made a grave mistake to spy on us."

"Well, you made a grave mistake," coughed Discord, spitting up some blood. "Choosing to harm others for your own benefit."

Black Magic responded with another punch to Discord's stomach, breaking a few ribs in the process.

"Oh, come on, Discord," chuckled Black Magic, evilly. "You're the master of chaos. I thought creating chaos was something you were born to do, something that you are supposed to do and not prevent."

"That's what you think," snapped Discord, trying to muster up enough energy to conjure up some chaos magic to fight these ponies. "When Celestia gets through with you…"

"If she learns of what I am going to do to you," interrupted Black Magic, as a pony handed him a baseball bat. "You see, a wise pony once said that if somepony does something to you, you don't get mad, you get even. That is what Trixie did recently and now, that is what we are going to do to you. Lift him up."

Two ponies then grabbed Discord in their auras and Discord closed his eyes, his life flashing before his eyes from the time he was a baby to the present. He could only think of Fluttershy, Celestia and all the ponies that he had befriended since he was reformed.

"It's time for Celestia to receive a message of what happens when we discover spies in our mist," cried Black Magic, his eyes darting at Discord. "Besides, I could use a backup plan for when we face Trixie if our plans fail."

For the next few minutes, Black Magic swung the baseball bat at Discord and the blows were loud enough to be heard for miles, even as far away as Twilight's castle. The princess of friendship was suddenly awakened by the loud noises coming from the Everfree Forest.

"What was that?" gasped Twilight, climbing out of her bed and racing over to the window. "It sounds like its coming from the Everfree Forest."

Looking out, Twilight could suddenly see flashes of light coming from the distance and feeling a sense of fright, she took flight and went to find the source of the disturbance. After a few moments, Twilight looked down to see a bloodied body lying at the entrance. Upon further inspection, Twilight gasped loudly in shock at what she saw.

"Discord!" cried Twilight, landing at the unconscious creature of chaos who had a piece of paper attached to his body. Ripping the paper off of Discord's body, Twilight pulled the letter to her face and read it out loud to herself.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

You were very foolish to send a spy into our midst, especially one as dumb and as stupid as

Discord. If you think that we are going to stop at achieving our goal, then you are sadly

mistaken. I know that the Princess of Friendship is hiding our old friend from us and we will

find and eliminate her along with you and your fellow princesses. Then, we will hang your

bodies as trophies for all to see as we create our own government. This was just a sample of

what is to come if you don't stop us in our goal. So, back off!

Your friends,

Black Magic and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Equestria."

Twilight's face turned white upon reading this letter. It seemed that the list that Celestia and the others had presented confirmed her worst fears. This wasn't just a case of angry ponies, this was a plot to create a new Equestria as well as to eliminate all that stood in their way including Trixie and Twilight knew it.